Gyger
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Variant spelling in Slavic regions and in Switzerland of German Geiger
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɡaɪɡɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gyger is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 5.5K
- ESSpain1 in 5M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 145 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.5K (inferred from the name graph)
1,519 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variant spelling in Slavic regions and in Switzerland of German Geiger.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gyger counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | 1,519 | 1 in 5.5K | 1.5K | Gyger | 42 |
| US United States | 312 | 1 in 1.1M | 344 | Gyger | 145 |
| ES Spain | 10 | 1 in 5M | 10 | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 1 | 1 in 11M | 1 | — | — |
| TH Thailand | — | — | — | Gyger | 1 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | — | — | Gyger | 3 |
1,519 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); MVČR — living population register 2017. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Gyger is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Alternative spelling of jigger (“door”).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, a giantess, female jotun, female troll
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, female jotun; female giant
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Philipp Gygerb. 1569CH(1569-1623)
- Hans Conrad Gygerb. 1599CHSwiss cartographer and engineer (1599–1674)
- Emanuel Gygerb. 1886CHSwiss flower photographer and postcard printer in the 1930s and 1940s (1886-1951)
- Rudolf Gygerb. 1920CHSwiss footballer (1920–1996)
- Pia Gygerb. 1940CHSwiss Zen master (1940–2014)
- Walter Gygerb. 1946CHSwiss diplomat
- Patrick Gygerb. 1971CHSwiss art curator
- Delia Gygerb. 1987CHSwiss actress
- Alessia Gygerb. 2008CHSwiss diver
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 1.5K | #682 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 344 | #62,792 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 312 | #63,873 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 300 | #62,396 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 10 | #120,154 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #228,997 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gyger mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant spelling in Slavic regions and in Switzerland of German Geiger. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Gyger?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡaɪɡɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Gyger have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 1.5 thousand people named Gyger, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gyger.
- Where is Gyger most common?
- Gyger is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.5 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Gyger?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 1,519 people named Gyger in 2024, about 1 in 5.5 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gygerThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gyger”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.